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While facing a lefty who’s throwing in-swingers, it’s best not to take the offstump guard, it’s just a matter of time before you would be trapped leg before.

No, I am not trying to give batting lessons, just responding to a chota mooh bada paragraph (reproduced below)

“some day when the history of all this is written someone will have to come up with a convincing answer for how a 70 year old attention seeker with lots of free time and unfettered access to the Internet managed to mind control an entire generation into arguing over silly nothings with subliminal messages no longer than 140 characters at a time.”

The “70-year old attention seeker” is a reference to Dr. Subramanian Swamy. That blogger wonders, how could a man , who most recently:

Successfully won the 2G case almost by himself and in the process sent major luminaries of the UPA to jail.

Successfully stalled the gold plating initiave which would have permanently altered the famous Tirumala Devasthanam.

Successfully stalled UPA’s Ram Sethusamudram misadventure.

Successfully stalled the advent of Islamic Banking in India, and

Argued for the Himachal Pradesh government in the case against forced conversions by Christian missionaries.

And manage to mind control an entire generation (who are growing up in the UPA-yuga). Anyone who has set foot in an Indian court would appreciate the real magnitude of the aforementioned achievements of Dr. Swamy and won’t see the need to ask the question that has been baffling the blogger. Even supporters of the zero loss theory, the lowest in the IQ chain, would agree that Dr. Swamy’s accomplishments in the 2G case alone is reason enough to attract a large share of admirers from all sides of the political spectrum. The other cases will obviously appeal to the Hindu youth.

I am guessing the ball probably slipped past the bloggers leg. There is an explanation, the offstump stance makes you think that balls on the middle & leg are going down the leg side. They aren’t. It’s just the angle which makes you think so. If you adjust your stance to middle, or middle & leg, you should be able to see the ball better and choose the correct shot.

Moving away from analogies, off late, I have been sensing that a certain group which staunchly supports only A particular politician (who I also support) might be entertaining some naughty ideas. This group wants to deflect all the negative labels like “trolls”, “bigots”, “communal” and all the other lefty labels onto what that blogger calls viratists. In simple words, the old “good right and bad right” game. I wonder if the group has started to believe that labeling Swamy and his supporters as communal will help BJP get the support of the secularists. I however seriously suspect that any such courtesy is going to be extended by the secularists. Swamy or no Swamy, BJP ain’t cool enough for the lefties. Don’t try to play to the lefty’s strength, just play your natural shots with a straight bat, that’s your best chance.

By the way, I don’t know much about the blogger who wrote the quoted paragraph but from my brief interaction so far, it appears that the gentleman tweets a lot and he too has unfettered access to the internet. I am not sure how many minds he has managed to control so far.

Between this LBW blogger and swamy, guess who has more free time and unfettered free access to the internet? And let’s guess who had to seek your attention because we slept while the country was being looted while the media put up a smoke screen to it?

Secularism is the false bogey. If Offstumped is really offended by the DNA article, he should present his view against it’s crux – the identity of India. Not make such snide remarks.

For the record voting rights are not ‘Natural’ fundamental rights. Swamy knows the law better than fluff-stumped.

kank

Dr Swamy has been doing great work to save the soft slow attack on India and Indians. Many would not even know how we are being attacked slowly in garb of “secular” activity. In case of gold plating at Tirumala , TTD was taking the stand that gold plating is secular! Mr Subramanian Swamy is a new beacon to reckon and respect, if otherwise then retreat into sewer. Viva Swamy, Viva India! Jai Swamy, Jai Bharat!

http://twitter.com/raksopenmind Rakesh Babu G R

I have been reading Offtumped’s writings for some time. And I think I understand the reasons for some of his unpopular views.

1. If you have to choose between a Lokpal and a Narendra Modi govt to combat corruption, what would you choose? I think he chose Narendra Modi govt and attacked Anna because he thought Lokpal was a mirage that people were falling for and which would not solve the problem at all, and the Congress would take the credit and get re-elected.

2. He is attacking Swamy because he is taking the focus away from development/governance that Offstumped wants Modi to fight 2014 elections on. He also attacks him because he is unreliable and changes alliances quickly. And the last reason is, Swamy knows that Advani is in a weak position, and he is pairing up with him to give him strength. The best way for Swamy to get some position of power is through Advani which Offstumped obviously wouldn’t like.

I think Modi should assure Swamy of some position for his stellar work in 2G/Aircel-Maxis case when the rest of the opposition was lying impotent eating samosas over coffee.

http://twitter.com/pranshum73 Pranshu Mishra

1. we need not agree with every single of a person.

2. also we just can not trash Swamy’s hard work in 2G and a number of other cases because of a article. the article was in bad taste but there is also a lot of other good work he did

3.his work was without (personal) benefits.the entire electoral benefit will be to BJP and regional parties not Janta Dal

4.also in the same breath liberals trash Namo’s all good work saying he bungled Sahrubbudin’s encounter,etc.

Sai

It is very disappointing to see how right-wingers have formed into factions with their own idols (be it ABV or Swamy). There is nothing wrong in admiring a leader of their own choice but the problem comes when one right-wing faction starts attacking the leader of other right-wing faction, even more than the leaders of rival ideology. The Swamy faction (Most of them are BJP supporters) mecilessly attacks ABV and calls him names. They feel that ABV ruined BJP and he should be treated on par with Anti-National, Hindu-baiting Leftists. Surprisingly, most of these people had literally no problem with ABV when he was Prime minister. But their recently born admiration for Swamy made them mad. Most of them hate ABV just because Swamy hates him. They have forgotten the contribution of ABV to the growth of BJP and they started trivialising the contribution of ABV/LKA. They developed a needless grudge. No person is completely positive. All have their own merits and demerits. But on a whole we have to analyse rationally and try to accept the reality by embracing both positive and negative. Similarly, ABV faction still feel Swamy as untrustworthy because of his bitterly act of bringing down BJP govt in 1999. But his recent contributions, be it in 2G case or Hindu related issues or dynasty’s corruption, cannot be ignored. It time for both factions to bury their hatchets and unite together before the common opponent takes advantage of division. United we stand – Divided we fall. Why only “Swamy Vs ABV” ? Why not “Swamy+ABV”?. Let us wok together to get rid of this current corrupt regime and install people’s leader NaMo in the forthcoming elections .

http://twitter.com/reachnilesh Nilesh Desai

Don’t quite agree… Just the way there is a difference between confidence and over confidence, there is a difference in being aggressive and over aggressive.

http://www.tattvaanveshanam.org/ मानस प्रकाश

Point 5 says:

Argued for the Himachal Pradesh government in the case against forced conversions by Christian missionaries.

All other points have the word “successfully”, while 5 doesn’t. Can someone shed light on the outcome of that hearing? Did the bible-thumpers win a license to harvest heathen souls at will, or did Swamy stop their devious designs?

http://www.tattvaanveshanam.org/ मानस प्रकाश

The mistake many people make is trying to play by the secularist rules. There are two issues with this strategy: (1) The rules are rigged in favor of the secularists (2) The secularists don’t give a damn about rules.

That said, I have some empathy with offstumped. There are some individuals who do more harm than good by resorting to mindless noise. This serves as fodder for the secularists who then conveniently ignore the one using facts, instead play up the noise maker and shed tears of victim-hood. We have seen this happen quite a few times. While the role of the noise makers is no doubt important, it should be within some boundaries and definitely shouldn’t end up serving the secularists’ cause.